Christian Economic Heterodoxy

The Protestant Critique of Capitalism

Piotr Kopiec, Marcin Składanowski, Przemysław Kantyka, Adam Kubiś, Nicholas Adams, Marek Jagodziński, Pawel Mąkosa, Adam Kubiś, Nicholas Adams, Marek Jagodziński, Pawel Mąkosa

• Publisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783647500898
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Theology

This volume could be written differently. It could present the Protestant theological view on the economy from Luther, Zwingli and Calvin until contemporary prominent theologians. Or it could be a description of the teaching of one of the Protestant Churches or denomination. Or it could be an investigation of the traces of Protestant theology in the contemporary prevailing economic order. All such presentations could be hugely interesting and accurate – and they would be reasonable in light of the most critical questions of today's world. However, the authors would propose a different approach that is not disjunctive, contrasting or opposing to the above-mentioned and that instead wants to reveal new trends and processes occurring in the Protestant world and bringing a new, more critical view on capitalism and its offspring, such as consumptionism.

Table of contents

• Title page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• I. From Postcolonialism to Ecumenism – the Contexts of Protestant Economic Heterodoxy
• II. Protestant Reformation and the Beginnings and Nature of Capitalism: Asking about Coincidences
• III. Evangelicalism – Between Advocacy for Capitalism and Call to Social Involvement
• IV. Models of Protestant Economic Heterodoxy
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Indices